But the notion becomes progressively more untrue when it is applied to families and genera, while it is most of all untrue when applied to species.
Thus it has come about that what was looked upon by Charles Keene as garish, exaggerated, and untrue in effect, is accepted to-day by the majority of people as a lively and legitimate method of illustration.
Had be omitted it, he would have been untrue to his constituency.
But if he only sings of that which is sweet, whereas that which is not sweet too frequently presents itself, his song will in the end be untrue and ridiculous.
It went against his heart to beat a creature so defenceless; and, for the life of him, he knew no other way to rid himself of this unwelcome and, as he began to think, perhaps untrue companion.
She had begun by telling an untrue story to Prickly Porky, a story which had made Prickly Porky very angry with Old Man Coyote, although they had never met.
There wouldn't be any place for the Granny Foxes who start untrue stories just to make trouble.
Besides, she is smart enough to tell these little trouble-making, untruestories as if she had heard them from some one else.
And no one knows better than she how to make trouble for other people by starting little untrue stories.
It was a noble thing on the part of Burke and Fitzwilliam and the other seceders from Fox that not all their horror of France could make them untrue to Ireland.
It is untrue that even at that time I could justly be so described in other questions.
It is untrue that the payers of income tax were then the predominant class in the constituencies.
I should, therefore, be untrue to myself, and unjust to you, were I not to confess to a pardonable pride in the privilege of addressing for the second time one of the graduating classes of this renowned institution.
In conclusion, allow me to repeat the thought of the beginning, that it is the nature of man to look upward, and he who does not look upward is untrue to his nature.
These investigations have led me to the conclusion, that atavism, as it is generally described, always or nearly always is due to hybridization, and therefore it is to be considered as untrue or false atavism.
Others have been found untrueto a relatively high degree, as is notorious in the case of the purple beech.
The only refreshment which did him any good was what he drank out of the glass, which to him, indeed, had been but an untrue prophet.
But one may say, in passing, that even from that point of view Spencer is untrue to his own Agnosticism in speaking of the Unconditioned as the cause of phenomena.
And that is a statement so grotesquely untrue that I suspect Sir Oliver would be the first to disown the plain implications of his own argument.
But it is untrue that the Russian Church in its influence on the people is in any respect different from any other church.
All those statements are so utterly untrue and unfounded that one is ashamed to refute them.
He could not get his foundation for insisting that I was in favor of this negro equality anywhere else as well as he could by assuming that untrue proposition.
His assertion that I made an "especial objection" (that is his exact language) to the decision on this account is untruein point of fact.
But if an untrue statement be made with the intention to deceive, it is a lie.
Why, then, had Messer Griffo been untrue to his promise?
Though I do not think that it is ever well for a true man to play an untrue part, yet I know that you acted thus in the thought of serving me.
The present work is coarse in expression, and untrue as a likeness.
Protestantism is untrueto its own principle in representing the administration of the sacraments according to their institution as an index of the true Church.
He died perfectly himself, and was not even for a moment untrue to his character.
The third was his sister Laure, who throughout his life was the most intimate friend he had, and to whom we owe his rescue from much scandalous and untrue gossip.
Work for it, think on it, pray for it; let no illusion render you untrue to it: beware of the enemy who would demolish the foundation of one patriotism under pretext of laying the stones of another.
There are those who will say his characters are untrue and impossible.
They must be gently requested not to abuse hell; they may be reminded that their stories are both untrue and discouraging.
She never praises me as much as I deserve;" and such unjust and untrue accusations.
I know he tells the most dreadful untrue stories, and that does make him a liar, I know.
It ran thus: To the most untrue and cruel gentylman, Sir Daniel Brackley, Knyght, These: I fynde ye were untrue and unkynd fro the first.
When a person is thinking mistaken or untrue thoughts, I see something like a shimmer of light all around them: it comes and goes, like a flicker from a candle.
And I can always tell if a person is thinking either wicked thoughts or untrue ones.
This idea is equally untrue to reason and experience.
It embraces the becoming and unbecoming (practice), and the true and untrue (theory).
The first is evidently untrue for we see things coming into, and passing out, of being.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untrue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
